Excerpt from WKEF/WRGT
Calls for the removal of Confederate statues and monuments have sparked again since the death of George Floyd.
A Dayton woman has been pushing for the removal of her own relative's sculpture and work in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Judith Ezekiel's fight stretches over 450 miles.
"Statues are memorials, they're not history," said Ezekiel, a professor emeritus at Wright State University.
The Confederate monument was created by Judith's relative, Moses Ezekiel.
Moses was a Jewish-American sculptor and Confederate soldier. He is buried at the foot of the statue which sits in Section 16 of the cemetery, a section that holds 482 graves of Confederate soldiers.
"It shows two African-Americans and it implies the slaves' collusion in their own slavery which is what I do believe Moses Ezekiel believed, that they were happy as slaves," said she said.
